From: Jesse Merriman <jesse.d.merriman@...>
Date: 2007-03-26T07:29:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Backus, Functional Programming, and Ruby

On Sunday 25 March 2007 18:03, Joel VanderWerf wrote:
> Ruby has its own way of doing things, not that there is anything wrong
> with defining new ways:
>
> [[1,2,3], [6,5,4]].transpose.map{|x,y|x*y}.inject{|s,x|s+x}
> => 28

Yep, I was just seeing how close I could make Ruby code look like Backus' 
code; the goal was to define inner_product as a compose of the three other 
functions without any named variables.

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Jesse Merriman
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